SkyPup
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Call Before You Dig With Your Backhoe!!!
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Apparently the server is over loaded, so here are the pics!
You probably know about the law requiring you to call for utility locating before you do any excavation. The pictures below are a result of a guy using a post hole digger with out calling for "locates" and he hit an underground cross country gas pipe.
This is what a high pressure gas main is capable of
You probably know about the law requiring you to call for utility locating before you do any excavation. The pictures below are a result of a guy using a post hole digger with out calling for "locates" and he hit an underground cross country gas pipe.
This is what a high pressure gas main is capable of
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Wow, thanks for linking to the real story, the photos were posted on another site stating it was due to someone using a post hole digger, which obviously was false!
Still, I would NOT want to be responsible for that!
Still, I would NOT want to be responsible for that!
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This has been covered here: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/safety/135809-call-before-you-dig.html
Apparently it was a rusted/corroded pipe, not a BH or PHD that caused the explosion.
Source: snopes.com: Call Before You Dig! - Gas Main Explosion
Aaron Z
Apparently it was a rusted/corroded pipe, not a BH or PHD that caused the explosion.
Source: snopes.com: Call Before You Dig! - Gas Main Explosion
Aaron Z
Sorry I didn't mean to rain on your parade.
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No problem, I saw it reported on another site as a tractor backhoe incident and could hardly believe that, so I am grateful to you for pointing out the truth that I was not aware of....
KeithInSpace
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Still makes for a pretty bad day...
BXinNH
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Tractor Operator to Investigator: "Dude, I don't know, it was like that when I got here. I just figured I'd fill in the hole so no one would fall in."
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Willl
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What tractor ?